thetrading.tools

What we offer

One live desk, five pillars.

Everything on The Trading Tools is free and recomputed every trading day. It starts with the Decision Desk — one market read on four holding periods — and goes as deep as you want from there, pillar by pillar.

The Decision Desk — four clocks, one market

The homepage reads the same market on four holding periods, each with a dated verdict, its historical base rate, and the condition that would change it: Tape (today–5 sessions — who controls the last 10 sessions, on the Tape Tracker), Swing (1 week–3 months — do daily internals support a multi-week hold), Cycle (3–12 months — how broadly the average stock participates), and Valuation (3–10 years — how stretched prices are versus history, on the Bubble Tracker). The “What moved today” briefing below the clocks surfaces the most unusual changes across everything we track.

Markets — 67 live tools

The health of the tape under the surface — breadth and named breadth signals, volatility and credit, sector and global rotation, crypto, day-trading session stats, options flow, and sentiment — grouped by the question each set answers:

Signals — what happened next

Honest base-rate studies: for each well-known technical trigger, we find every time it fired on SPY since 1993 and tabulate the forward returns across six horizons (1 week to 12 months) — average, median, hit rate, best and worst, with the full sample and the caveats in plain sight. No hot takes, just the historical odds.

Fund Managers — what the greats own

Quarterly 13F holdings for tracked institutional managers, parsed directly from SEC EDGAR filings — every position with quarter-over-quarter changes, new buys, exits, and portfolio weights. Each holding links straight to its price chart.

Economy — the macro backdrop

FRED-sourced indicators given the same treatment as our market tools: full history, an SPY overlay, and a dated plain-English reading of the latest release — inflation, the yield curve, labor, sentiment, and more, in a directory built to grow.

Insights — data-driven essays

Long-form market essays built on the same data as the tools: a clear stance, at least one live chart you can't get elsewhere, and falsifiable “what would change our mind” markers. Each carries a named byline, primary-source links, and a plain-language note on how we checked it.

Per-symbol charts

Every ticker across the site — heatmap cells, options scans, fund holdings, sector and macro tables — links to a clean candlestick + volume price chart drawn from our own daily history.

What it costs

Nothing. No paywall, no signup, no account, no trial. The tools, the dated readings, and the methodology are all free to read and quote. See how it works for the daily workflow behind it.